YouTube Music Albums Scraper 🎵

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Powerful scraper for extracting detailed album information from YouTube Music. Get comprehensive data about albums, artists, and playlists in structured format.

🎯 Use Cases

• Music industry research and analysis
• Track artist discographies
• Build music recommendation systems
• Monitor new album releases
• Create music databases
• Analyze music trends over time

✨ Features

• Search multiple keywords/artists
• Extract detailed album metadata
• Get high-quality album artwork
• Collect artist information
• Generate direct playlist URLs
• Customizable results limit
• Clean, structured JSON output

🔍 Output Data

For each album, you'll get:

• Album title
• Artist name and channel ID
• Release year
• Album artwork (multiple resolutions)
• Playlist ID and direct URL
• Artist channel URL
• Timestamp of data collection

💡 Input Parameters

• keywords: Array of search terms (artist names, album titles etc.)
• maxItems: Maximum number of albums to scrape per keyword (default: 50)

🚀 Tips

• Use specific artist names for more focused results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Data is perfect for importing into spreadsheets or databases
• Results are real-time and constantly updated

📝 Notes

• Respects YouTube Music's terms of service
• Uses stealth techniques to avoid blocking
• Handles rate limiting automatically
• Clean, structured data format

Need help? Feel free to reach out through Apify Console! 🤝

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"keywords":[
"u2"
],
"maxItems":50
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
{
"keyword":"u2",
"data":{
"title":"The Best Of 1980 - 1990",
"thumbnails":[
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w60-h60-l90-rj",
"width":60,
"height":60
},
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w120-h120-l90-rj",
"width":120,
"height":120
},
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w226-h226-l90-rj",
"width":226,
"height":226
},
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w544-h544-l90-rj",
"width":544,
"height":544
}
],
"type":"Album",
"artist":{
"name":"U2",
"id":"UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ",
"url":"https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ"
},
"year":"1998",
"playlistId":"OLAK5uy_kufeZRgzCIzRql9vJUptlVQcoT3W3FTNU",
"browseId":"MPREb_BbqUa7UXLpX",
"playlistUrl":"https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kufeZRgzCIzRql9vJUptlVQcoT3W3FTNU"
},
"scrapedAt":"2025-02-09T09:57:41.866Z"
},
 ...
]

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